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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Whose Beloved Community? Black Civil And LGBT Right Movements

TransGriot Note: This Call for Proposals was forwarded to me by Ovid Amorson and looks like it's right in my activist wheelhouse. This will be one tremendous conference at Emory University in the ATL on March 27-29 focused on the Black Civil and LGBT Rights Movements and I'm definitely interested in going or participating in it.

An international conference at Emory University, March 27-29, 2014

Call for Proposals: Review of proposals begins June 17, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be no later than September 15, 2013.

The role of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in both
race-based and sexuality-based civil rights movements is frequently
rendered invisible as a result of prevailing national narratives that
present (presumed white) LGBT communities and (presumed straight) Black
communities as opposing forces. In recent years, however, an increasing
number of scholars and activists have produced work seeking to make
visible the vital points of intersection and contention among the U.S.
Civil Rights movement, the LGBT equality movement, and Black LGBT
communities. This work is shaped by questions related to identity
formation, intersectionality, tokenism, marriage equality, the role of
religion and “respectability” in African American communities, the
emergence of the South as a center of Black LGBT life in the U.S.,
HIV/AIDS and its continuing effect on African American communities, the
proliferation of a prison-industrial complex unprepared for its LGBT
population, and the appropriation of the civil rights movement by the
right. This conference seeks to make visible and critically engage the
points of convergence and divergence between these two historic,
overlapping, yet distinct social movements that continue to transform
civil society, law, and the academy.

We encourage paper and panel proposals on a wide range of topics
including, but not exclusively encompassing, the following:

The legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

Identifications and disidentifications with “movements”

Black LGBT leaders and popular figures, historical and contemporary

Literary, artistic and popular culture engagements with Black LGBT identities

Inclusion and marginalization of transgender and bisexual identities in Black LGBT communities/politics

Black LGBT activism in relation to work in other LGBT communities of color

Racial diversity in White-led LGBT organizations

Law and politics

Black queer politics of space

Public health

Memory, mourning, trauma, and resilience

Black LGBT families

Marriage equality movements

Sexuality and respectability

Class and elitism

Sexism, classism, and other “isms” in the Black LGBT movement

Black masculinity in LGBT communities

Black feminism in LGBT communities

Intergenerational issues

Intersections between public advocacy/policy and academia

Intersections of U.S. Civil Rights with Black queer Atlantic political movements

The future of Black queer studies

Teaching Black LGBT history, Black queer studies, etc.

Black LGBT university populations

LGBT issues and Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Each submission must include a cover page with paper titles,
presenters, their affiliations, and a current email contact, along with a
maximum two-page c.v. of each presenter. For individual papers, please
submit an abstract of no more than 250 words. For panels, submit an
overall abstract of no more than 500 words and individual paper
descriptions of no more than 250 words each. Please submit materials via
email to Whose.beloved.community@emory.edu.

This conference is generously supported by the Arcus Foundation and Emory University

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Monica Roberts, AKA the TransGriot (Gree-oh) is a native Houstonian, GLAAD award nominated blogger, writer, and award winning trans human rights advocate. She's the founding editor of TransGriot, and her writing has appeared at the Bilerico Project, Ebony.com, The Huffington Post and the Advocate.
She works to foster understanding and acceptance of trans people inside and outside communities of color and was recently honored with the Virginia Prince Transgender Pioneer Award

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